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Fedora 27 : mozilla-privacy-badger (2018-d5d8819190)

high Nessus Plugin ID 111769

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Fixed security issues with HTML5 local storage tracking detection as well as SoundCloud widget replacement.
 Thanks again to Cure53 for discovering and reporting these vulnerabilities.

 - Improved Facebook link unwrapping; now enabled on the Facebook Onion domain

 - Improved translations (Italian, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish, Ukrainian)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected mozilla-privacy-badger package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-d5d8819190

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 111769

File Name: fedora_2018-d5d8819190.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/16/2018

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mozilla-privacy-badger, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 8/15/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/15/2018

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